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McIntosh and Filde's anaerobic jar

#Indicator system: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, inoculated on to a nutrient agar plate is kept inside the jar along with the other plates.


ACSI

American Customer Satisfaction Index, an economic indicator that measures the satisfaction of consumers in the U.S.

Argentometry

In the Fajans method, named after Kazimierz Fajans, typically dichlorofluorescein is used as an indicator; the end-point is marked by the green suspension turning pink.

Battenberg course indicator

The Battenberg course indicator is a mechanical calculating device invented by Prince Louis of Battenberg in 1892 for taking station on other vessels whose range & bearing and course & speed are known.

Bolivian Yungas

Chusquea bamboo is an indicator species of the ecoregion.

Build light indicator

The build light indicator originated from CruiseControl, a continuous integration tool created by employees of ThoughtWorks.

China Airlines Flight 611

Chang Chia-juch, the Taiwanese Vice Minister of Transportation and Communications, said that two Cathay Pacific aircraft in the area received B-18255's emergency location-indicator signals.

Cincinnati metropolitan area

Traveling through the region from North to South, a subtle but interesting change in climate can be observed and is most evidenced by the gradual increase in the occurrence of subtropical indicator plants in the landscape (most noticeable are the Southern Magnolia and Mimosa trees, the needle palm also may be found as a winter hardy landscape specimen in yards near the Ohio River).

City development index

The Urban Indicators Programme of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) developed the indicator so that they could rank cities of the world according to their level of development and as a display of indicators depicting development.

Despot Stefan Lazarević Memorial

And so my soul from my piteous body separated, at a place called Glava, during year 6000 and 900 and 30 and 5 indicator 5 sun round 19 and lune 19, month of July, 19th day.

Digifusion

The FVRT series also included the FVRT150 (a clone of the FVRT100 with an altered faceplate and 80gb HDD, sold by Argos), the FVRT145 (similar to the FVRT150 but with the front panel indicator lights removed), and the FVRT200, which added repeat recording and a personalised folders feature in the recording library.

Fáinne

The President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, W. T. Cosgrave acknowledged the Fáinne on 8 February 1924 as an indicator of Irish Language proficiency.

Graphical user interface elements

; Hyperlink: Text with some kind of indicator (usually underlining and/or color) that indicates that clicking it will take one to another screen or page.

Hank Goldberg

A graphic then soon appears with Goldberg's prediction as to which NFL team will win the game, and with an indicator (generally a checkmark V) as to which team will cover the spread.

Hemosiderinuria

Hemoglobinuria is another indicator of intravascular hemolysis, but disappears more quickly than hemosiderin, which can remain in the urine for several weeks; therefore, hemosiderinuria is a better marker for intravascular hemolysis.

Ice accretion indicator

Examples of these are 'rime icing on indicator' and 'FROIN' (frost on indicator).

Indicator value

The older usage of the term refers to Ellenberg's indicator values, which are based on a simple ordinal classification of plants according to the position of their realized ecological niche along an environmental gradient.

KBOS

Logan International Airport (ICAO location indicator: KBOS), serving Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

KBZC

In Spring 2005, the Royce-era KWOD played its final song ("Nice to Know You" by Incubus) then started a two week long transition to a Modern AC/Light Alternative format with an auditory progress indicator between songs.

Magazine cover indicator

The Magazine cover indicator is a somewhat irreverent economic indicator, though sometimes taken seriously by technical analysts, which says that the cover story on the major business magazines, particularly BusinessWeek, Forbes and Fortune in the United States is often a contrary indicator.

Magnolia grandiflora

On the East Coast, this "subtropical indicator" tree is seen in some gardens in the United States' upper Mid-Atlantic region, including southern and coastal Connecticut/Rhode Island, far southeastern New York, and milder parts of New Jersey.

Mean circulatory filling pressure

It is an indicator of how full the circulatory system is (i.e. the volume of blood in the system compared to the capacity of the system), and is influenced by the volume of circulating blood and the smooth muscle tone in the walls of the venous system (which determines the capacity of the system).

Morganella morganii

Methyl red tests positive in M.morganii, indicator dye that turns red in acidic solutions.

PABT

Bettles Airport (ICAO location indicator: PABT), in Bettles, Alaska, United States

PACD

Cold Bay Airport (ICAO location indicator: PACD), in Cold Bay, Alaska, United States

PACI

Chalkyitsik Airport (ICAO location indicator: PACI), in Chalkyitsik, Alaska, United States

PAPR

Prospect Creek Airport (ICAO location indicator: PAPR), in Prospect Creek, Alaska, United States

PASC

Deadhorse Airport (ICAO location indicator: PASC), in Deadhorse, Alaska, United States

PASD

Sand Point Airport (ICAO location indicator: PASD), in Sand Point, Alaska, United States

PASL

Sleetmute Airport (ICAO location indicator: PASL), in Sleetmute, Alaska, United States

Phreatophyte

O.E. (1927) and Robinson, T.W. (1958) on vascular plants in the arid western U.S., set up certain general types of indicator species, according to level of minimum depth of the water table at which water was at the maximum suction RO.

Prognosis

Other medical areas where prognostic indicators are used is in Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) (Hy's law) and use of an exercise stress test as a prognostic indicator after myocardial infarction.

Pumpellyite

It is an indicator mineral of the prehnite-pumpellyite metamorphic facies.

Range expansion index

According to Thomas DeMark, price weakness is shown by the indicator when its value rises above level 60 and then declines below it.

Russian Trading System

The RTS Index, RTSI, the official Exchange indicator, first calculated on September 1, 1995, is similar in function to the Dow Jones Average in New York City.

Scientific Monument Moises Bertoni

10 km is reached the city of Presidente Franco, take the road to Los Cedrales other 10 km there is a poster indicator, and enters into left (towards the river Parana) about 5 km and 15 km latter are dirt roads.

Scottish Crossbill

The metallic jip call is probably the best indicator, but even this needs to be recorded and analysed on a sonogram to confirm the identity.

Stewart Blusson

They found kimberlitic indicator minerals near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories in 1985, and their first kimberlite at Point Lake in 1991.

Stress and duress

Although not binding upon non-participating member states of the Council of Europe, this ruling is a useful indicator of international judicial views on the "stress and duress" methods authorised for use by the US administration.

Strunal CZ, a.s.

: As a possible indicator for economic sentiment, Bräuer moved to Bubenreuth to reunite with the expelled Schönbacher craftsmen in the spring of 1968.

Sustainable market orientation

SMO is a new systematic approach to marketing management that will ensure value to a diverse range of stakeholders by applying management criteria that will add value and assessing to internationally recognised indicators.

The seven-year itch

The phrase has become so popular that some couples use it as a indicator of the lifespan of their marriage, a famous example being a Bavarian politician Gabriele Pauli, who has been divorced twice.

Tony Silipo

As Education Minister, one of Silipo's first decisions was to restore national indicator achievement tests, which had previously been removed by his predecessor, Marion Boyd.

Triceps reflex

An absence of reflex can be an indicator of several medical conditions: Myopathy, neuropathy, spondylosis, sensory nerve disease, neuritis, potential lower motor neuron lesion, or poliomyelitis.

Twannberg meteorite

This pared with minerals found in the oxidized surface of the meteorite are an indicator that the meteorite fell on the Rhone glacier and was transported by it to Twann during the Würm ice age and then deposited there.

Viola tricolor

The flowers have also been used to make yellow, green and blue-green dyes, while the leaves can be used to make a chemical indicator.


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